O'odham Solidarity Project

Archived News & Notices
- Mar. 2010
2010 Annual Gathering to Protect Quitovac:  Thank You
Message

- Feb. 25, 2010
O'odham Ofelia Rivas Imprisoned for Four Days in Southern
Chiapas while Supporting Zapatistas

- Nov. 13, 2009
Apartheid in America:  Surviving Occupation on O'odham Lands
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Report Back from O'odham Voice Aginst the Wall Fundraiser
with Ward Churchill

- Oct. 1, 2009
Press Release:  Ward Churchill to Speak at Solidarity
Fundraiser for the O'odham Voice Against the Wall

- June 1, 2009
Press Release:  Protest to take place Friday, June 5, 2009 at 12:
00 p.m  at the municipal building in Sonoyta, Sonora, to demand
No Toxic Waste Dump or Border Wall on O’odham Lands.

- May 6, 2009
Reports from the May 6, 2009 International Day of Action: "No
Toxic Dump or Border Wall on O'odham Lands!"

- March, 28  2009
Solidarity Gathering Against Toxic Dump Proposal Near Sacred
Site of Quitovac; Resolution Against the Dump is Adopted

- December, 2009
Traditional O'odham Activist Ofelia Rivas Delilvers Statement to
Zapatista Gathering Dignia Rabina

- July, 2008
Temporary Victory:  Quitovac toxic dump haulted for now.  Read
the letter from the EPA

- July, 2008
Washington DC Press Conference Statement: O'odham Voice
Against the Wall

- May/2008
Tohono O'odham Nation Chairman Denounces DHS and the
Construction of the Border Wall

- May/2008
Department of Homeland Security issues waivers of cultural
and environmental protection laws to build border wall

- 03/29/08
Urgent Action needed to Stop Toxic Dump on O'odham Lands:   
Please take a moment to sign our petition and write letters to the officials
listed on the Green Action Webiste.

-01/07/08
Attorney for Apaches threatens suit aginst the Department of
Homeland Security to hault land seizures for border wall

-12/12/07
Reuters article on new passport law taking effect soon:
"New Travel Rules Leave Native Americans in Limbo"

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12/07/07
Department of Homeland Security Warns that Eminent Domain
will be used to take over land to build border wall

-11/12/07
The remains dug up during the Border Wall construction have
finally been returned!

-11/11/07
Traditional O'odham Statment from the October Indigenous
Encuentro at Viacam Pueblo, Mexico

-10/19/07
O’odham Return from Gathering with Mexico’s Indigenous and
Subcomandante Marcos

-6/25/07
O'odham remains dug up during Border Wall construction;
Reuters

- 4/04/07
Photos from the April 31st gathering in Quitovac

- 3/31/07
Protect O'odham Sacred Lands: Gathering in Quitovac, Sonora,
Mexico.

- 3/30/07
Gila River Indian Community protests against Romic toxic waste
facility.

- 2/15/07
Proposed Quitovac dump may be licenced for development aid
by the Border Environmental Cooperation Commission (BECC).

- 12/01/06
The Other Campaign Zapatista delegation visits traditional
O'odham representatives in Sonora.

- 11/27/06
Protest Against Quitovac Dump Shuts Down US/Mexico Border
Crossing.

- 11/10/06
O'odham Rights Cultural & Environmental Justice Coalition and
Green Action Statement Against the EPA Assesment of the
Quitovac Dump.

- 11/10/06
EPA Assesment of the Quitovac Toxic Dump Proposal

- 10/08/06
Mexico Retracts Statements on the Toxic Dump proposal at the
Quitovac ceremony grounds

- 10/05/06
Mohawks in Solidarity with Tohono O'odham at Border Summit

- 9/20/06
International Protest against the Quitovac dump planned for
October 12, 2006

- 8/18/06
O'odham protest military home invasions

- 7/19/06
Opposition to the Quitovac dump builds:
Tucson Citizen article on proposed dump

- 6/21/06
Stop the toxic dump in Quitovac:
Send messages of opposition to these agencies

- 6/02/06
National Guard to be deployed on the Arizona / Mexico Border

- 5/25/06
Border Patrol harassment of O'odham activists along border
region

- 5/24/06
Statement of Traditional O'odham ceremony leaders against
Quitovac toxic dump

- 5/24/06
More information and updates on plans to build toxic waste
dump on O'odham ceremonial lands in Quitovac, Sonora

- 5/11/06
Toxic mining dump in Hermosillo, Sonora closed by indigenous
blockade

- 5/03/06
Protest in Shon Oidagk to stop the proposed chemical waste
dumpsite.

- 4/22/06  
Mexico begins plans to place toxic waste dump on sacred
O'odham ceremonial grounds in Quitovac, Sonora